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Look Out Of Your Window Now! Astronomical events.
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Gramaisc
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You'll struggle to see a Starlink with the naked eye in a populated area. The star I could barely see seems likely to be Arcturus, which is a fairly bright one, but the ISS is about a hundred times brighter than that. A magnitude of around 0 for Arcturus and about -5 for the ISS, depending on the angles of things at the time.
One of those numbers that I remember, 2.51188, the fifth root of 100, the difference between one magnitude and the next one up or down.
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One of those numbers that I remember, 2.51188, the fifth root of 100, the difference between one magnitude and the next one up or down.
Ok, can you just tell me when I can see Starlink, cos that's what I was looking for
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The Hawk
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Yes, it was a bit cloudy last night and I just got the one star faintly poking through the cloud; the ISS was easy to see through the cloud though.You'll struggle to see a Starlink with the naked eye in a populated area. The star I could barely see seems likely to be Arcturus, which is a fairly bright one, but the ISS is about a hundred times brighter than that. A magnitude of around 0 for Arcturus and about -5 for the ISS, depending on the angles of things at the time.
One of those numbers that I remember, 2.51188, the fifth root of 100, the difference between one magnitude and the next one up or down.
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Tracker
Calculate when you can see the SpaceX Starlink satellites above your location
The weather forecast looks similar for tonight's passes.
littleme
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Hope that's the moon and not some big glary meteorite headed to earth......
staffordjas
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Son said as he was driving home tonight that the moon was spooky tonight, very clear, yellow & low down.
So low that we couldn't see it from our house with all the trees.
littleme
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I'll go look in a min
That was the first thing that crossed my mind too.
staffordjas
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And mine.That was the first thing that crossed my mind too.
Gramaisc
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Theresa Green
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Groovy orange setting moon this evening over Berry Hill
Yeh
Man
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littleme
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For the unsure/unknowing...
Orionid 2023 meteor shower tonight: How to see shooting stars this October
Here’s how to see remnants of Halley’s Comet streaking across the night sky as spectacular shooting stars.
www.sciencefocus.com
Gramaisc
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I'm not sure if this should be here or in the Round the Horne thread.
www.space.com
Wonder what it's like to fall into Uranus? These scientists do, too
Wind tunnels show what a probe descending into the atmosphere of an ice giant may have to contend with.
littleme
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Missed it, but there should be another, apparently at about roughly 1am I think!
Facebook says it's a solar geomagnetic storm caused by the huge flare from the sun on weds/thursday